Bug 106098

Summary: wish: make ftp error-notifications more informative
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister>
Component: FTPAssignee: KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: asn, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate, nicolasg, thiago
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description S. Burmeister 2005-05-22 11:08:38 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

When I connect to a ftp-server, I often get an error-notification: Could not open folder. As it does work sometimes, I thought: It cannot be the server, so it must be konqueror.
However, this conclusion was wrong. Also wrong is that konqueror does not tell me what kind of error happened. How should users be able to solve a problem, if they do not know what happened?

I would suggest that the error-notification should include a button "Details". Clicking on that button should give the user all information needed to know what the actual problem is.

E.g. in my case:
500 'EPSV': command unrecognized.
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,16,1,160,40).
425 Security: Bad IP connecting.

It would be even better, if one could offer a description, of what this error means, what the reasons could be and how it could be solved.
Comment 1 Nicolas Goutte 2005-05-22 14:49:31 UTC 
I doubt that it is a KIO ftp problem.

The ftp KIO slave does return errors. But I had found when debugging thumbnail: that sometimes the errors from a KIO slave go to kdDebug instead of being shown to the user.

Have a nice day!